“When God Abandons A People” # 2 Romans 1:16-32

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Date: May 1, 2022 Author: Wayne J. Edwards

In his book, “The Problem of Pain,” C.S. Lewis wrote: “ The lost enjoy forever the horrible freedom they demanded and are therefore self-enslaved.” In Romans 1:24ff, the Apostle Paul put it this way: God gives [the lost] up to their choices and the consequences of those choices. Beloved, as the Scriptures illustrate and secular history confirms, there comes a time when God simply removes His restraining grace, and He allows the evil intentions of man’s heart to surface. We will explain this further in our second sermon in this new series – “Confessing Christ in an Antichristian Culture.” The title of this sermon is: “When God Abandons A People.”

In his book, “The Problem of Pain,” C.S. Lewis wrote: “ The lost enjoy forever the horrible freedom they demanded and are therefore self-enslaved.” In Romans 1:24ff, the Apostle Paul put it this way: God gives [the lost] up to their choices and the consequences of those choices.

Beloved, as the Scriptures illustrate and secular history confirms, there comes a time when God simply removes His restraining grace, and He allows the evil intentions of man’s heart to surface. We will explain this further in our second sermon in this new series – “Confessing Christ in an Antichristian Culture.” The title of this sermon is: “When God Abandons A People.”

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Old Testament reading: Judges 10:6-16 – New Testament Reading: Hebrews 10:26-31

In the first 17-verses of Romans 1, the Apostle Paul drew the attention of his readers to the power of God’s grace, God’s love, and God’s mercy in imputing the righteousness of Christ to all those who hear and heed the gospel. (Roman 1:16-17)

In the last 14-verses of Romans 1, the Apostle Paul drew the attention of his readers to the power of God’s wrath which He will pour out on those who reject His gospel as the only means whereby they can be saved. (Romans 1:18-32)

However, while the born-again believer will not endure the eternal wrath of God (1 Thessalonians 5:9), there are other aspects of God’s wrath to which some believers will not be immune.

In Romans 1:24ff, the Apostle Paul said God’s wrath is released in three stages with each step preceded by the phrase, “God gave them up,” or “God gave them over.”

In Romans 1:24, the Apostle Paul said, because these pagan nations of old:

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